Tony Skyrme
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Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme, (1922-1987) was a British physicist. He is best known for formulating the first topological soliton to model a particle, the Skyrmion. Some of his most important work can be found in Selected Papers, with commentary by Brown. Skyrme was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society in 1985.